Eric Lai - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 7/07/2006 Microsoft to back Office-to-ODF plug-in

In a tacit acknowledgment of the OpenDocument Format's (ODF) increased momentum, Microsoft announced Thursday that it will back an open-source project...

Article | 3/07/2006 Opponents to ODF strike back in Massachusetts

A Massachusetts Senate committee released a report Thursday criticizing the state's Information Technology Division (ITD), claiming that its "unilater...

Article | 27/06/2006 Belgian gov't moves toward OpenDocument format

In another blow to the supremacy of Microsoft's Office franchise, Belgium on Friday became the second governmental body to approve the use of the Open...

Article | 7/06/2006 Options drive Web-based Office alternatives

Google's test release Tuesday of an online spreadsheet application is the highest-profile challenge yet to Microsoft's dominant Office software franch...

Article | 6/06/2006 Move over Excel, here comes Google Spreadsheets

Google plans on Tuesday to release a free online spreadsheet program that signals the company's increased incursion into the office software space dom...

Article | 5/05/2006 NextAction taps Oracle for database marketing

Some people choose databases from Oracle because of their cutting-edge features, but Steve Helle, chief technology officer at Denver area database mar...

Article | 5/04/2006 Firefox finally breaks 10 percent barrier

Firefox, the free open-source Web browser from Mozilla.org, quietly gained enough users in March to finally grab 10 percent of the Web browser market,...

Article | 20/03/2006 Microsoft hopes to 'mix' it up with Expression

Multimedia developer Jered Cuenco calls it the "gray box application" phenomenon: when a developer, befuddled by a graphic designer's computer-drawn m...

Article | 17/02/2006 Microsoft lists pricing for 2007 Microsoft Office

Microsoft said Thursday that its upcoming 2007 Microsoft Office will come in seven versions and that many of them will include new collaboration and c...

Article | 15/02/2006 Microsoft to debut Office Live service

Microsoft will announce the free beta of its upcoming Office Live service for small businesses Wednesday and said it hopes to garner more than 100,000...

Article | 10/02/2006 Coming next to the Mac: Linux and Windows?

Momentum is building, albeit unevenly, to bring alternate operating systems to the Intel-based Macintosh computers that Apple Computer recently releas...

Article | 8/02/2006 Linux tweaked for better graphics, video performance

Novell Tuesday released improvements to the way Linux handles graphics and video -- a move aimed at making the operating system more attractive to mai...

Article | 3/02/2006 Firefox browser use slips in January

The open-source Firefox Web browser continues to flirt with the 10 percent market share milestone, but Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) regained los...

Article | 1/02/2006 Microsoft releases beta 2 preview of IE 7 to developers

Microsoft has released the preview version of its second beta of Internet Explorer 7, which the company said sports increased security and a better in...

Article | 1/02/2006 Red Hat commits to MIT's US$100 laptop

Fedora Core, a popular flavor of Linux being developed by the open-source community, is hardly hefty by Tuesday's operating system standards. But to f...